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This appears, according to opinion writer Kimberly Wehle, to be a large win for protesters who used their freedom of speech to do what 2 impeachments and Mueller couldn't do - bring Trump under oath to answer questions. Congrats protesters!! A milestone indeed.
The rule of law has taken a beating in America over the past few years, and continued this week with former President Trump's ongoing repetition of his big lie that he won the 2020 election and former Trump aide Steve Bannon's defiance of a valid subpoena from the United States Congress. But in the midst of this flogging, an amazing thing happened on Monday: Trump sat for four hours and answered questions in a deposition taken under oath and under the pain and penalty of perjury.
Nonetheless, the fact that a handful of protesters of Mexican origin have succeeded in binding Trump to a legal process that included forcing him to testify under oath speaks volumes - it's something that former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the U.S. Congress in two impeachment trials never even came close to achieving.
With Biden in the White House, it's high time that government lawyers - most prominently, Attorney General Merrick Garland - take a page from these plaintiffs' playbook and bring some measure of legal accountability to the former president - who for so long has evaded any meaningful consequences for his behavior.
The rule of law has taken a beating in America over the past few years, and continued this week with former President Trump's ongoing repetition of his big lie that he won the 2020 election and former Trump aide Steve Bannon's defiance of a valid subpoena from the United States Congress. But in the midst of this flogging, an amazing thing happened on Monday: Trump sat for four hours and answered questions in a deposition taken under oath and under the pain and penalty of perjury.
Nonetheless, the fact that a handful of protesters of Mexican origin have succeeded in binding Trump to a legal process that included forcing him to testify under oath speaks volumes - it's something that former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the U.S. Congress in two impeachment trials never even came close to achieving.
With Biden in the White House, it's high time that government lawyers - most prominently, Attorney General Merrick Garland - take a page from these plaintiffs' playbook and bring some measure of legal accountability to the former president - who for so long has evaded any meaningful consequences for his behavior.
